reddit.com Archives - 10 December 2012, Monday

Resque is pretty heavily used, but development seems to be stalled out at this point. In production, especially on JRuby, sidekiq is much more efficient than running a bunch of resque processes. Also, you don't need to setup a monit/god monitor for each one, you just need to run/monit...

I will try. I'm running mining software right now, in fact. Every bitcoin transaction ever made is recorded in a tamper-resistant account book called the "Block chain". A block is just a set of transactions, whose contents are verified by a cryptographic hash that is hard to find. Sin...

Don't store user passwords in plaintext. In fact, given the nature of what you are doing, try not to store anything in plaintext. Cryptography across the board. I was originally going to suggest that you use some OpenID platform, but nah, what you should have is a table (users) with 4...

I really think the bitcoin tip bot is one of the best things to happen to Bitcoin (and potentially to reddit as well) in a long time. Now if only it could be completely integrated into reddit like so: You transfer any amount of bitcoins into your reddit account, which is then held in ...

"Donate for the Cryptome archive of files from June 1996 to the present" ... with MasterCard, Visa, American Express, Discover, or PAYPAL. No Bitcoin! "Excerpted from Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet, by Julian Assange with Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn and Jé...

Posts should be on technology (news, updates, political policy, etc). Image submissions are not allowed No personal information / no facebook links. Try not to editorialize the title (modify so as to change meaning significantly / or use a misleading title). URL shorteners, spam / exc...

I'm a fat guy, and I enjoy the holidays, so I want to play Bitcoin Santa this year and give away some BTC. Reply with your Bitcoin address, and I'll randomly (using random.org) send a little something to one person each day over the next 25 days. I won't send anything less than 0.01 B...

The bot is back up with everyone's balances restored. See the sidebar for enabled subreddits. Only the bitcoin related subreddits are enabled for now. It's still in beta, so expect some bugs and downtime now and then. Like with bitcoin itself, don't put in more than you can afford to ...

Betsofbitcoin is a very poor substitute for intrade. I wish they would develop a full trading platform. They could experiment by duplicating the three most popular bets in a prediction market. Other bets probably won't have enough liquidity.

It's good to see open-ended communication. Pragmatically, there's no way to avoid the traditional financial system right now. The danger in this is that fiat-based systems are like a quicksand foundation - the rules can change at any time. By making use of Bitcoin alongside fiat, Bala...

It sounds like the restaurant is planning on keeping the funds in bitcoin for the time being, which is even better than just converting it to fiat. Perhaps they'll find ways to spend the bitcoins that will benefit their business - such as advertising or to host a website.

Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency. It is an open source project under active development. More info @ bitcoin.org and bitcoin.it : Getting Started FAQ Common Myths Bitcoin Merchants Community rules Do not use URL shortening services: always submit the real link. No begging. ...

Occupy Wall Street is a leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the 1%. We are using the revolutionary Arab Spring ...

The quote you cited as "a big fuck you" is just there to bring the issue into clarity. Moral qualms about accepting Saudi Arabian currency is a completely separate issue from Wikipedia's policy on Bitcoin. Conflating these issues amounts to nothing more than a feeble attack on charact...

Please try to keep submissions on topic and of high quality. Just because it has a computer in it doesn't make it programming. Memes and image macros are not acceptable forms of content. If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here. App demos should include code a...

A large number of bitcoins are traded on exchanges right now, so it is easy to refer to Mt Gox for an agreed value, and that is what is typically done. However, if the exchanges didn't exist, value could still be determined by other means and in fact was determined in these ways befor...

Maybe if I mine with some equipment I have laying around now the currency will be worth more in the coming years as more adopters come about? I guess my only real expense would be electricity at this point. I probably couldn't mine enough to be worth a damn in the long run, but having...

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I wish that the .NET community was more interested in pushing the platform beyond Windows/Visual Studio. If these libraries and tools are so awesome then why not get it working on Linux/OSX? I keep asking Microsoft reps "Hey that's looks cool. Can I try it in Linux or OSX?". Nope! Hey...

and there is no way in hell they would go for a legal minefield like bitcoin. i'm not sure what legal problems they would run into. it doesn't seem all that different from from accepting a payment from a chinese citizen's visa which is denominated in yuan. there are services now that ...

I will buy 125 reddit gold subscription in bitcoin and donate them to /r/Bitcoin users if and only if Reddit decide to accept bitcoin for every transaction you can make on the site for at least two (2) years. People with bitcoin sleeping in their wallet: pledge to buy reddit gold acco...

My account is showing only the last inbound transaction as the total balance but there are no transaction records of any unknown outbound transfers so I'm missing about 43 coins. Tried calling their customer support number and got voicemail. Anyone else noticing problems? Update: Cred...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuXDLODr9MZ4dGFISXMyZDIwMDN0eWdISE42OVg3ZFE Due to some major inaccuracies in the first version and thanks to XxionxX and ideas on pulling live numbers, I have redone the spreadsheet with some really cool features. Fix 1: Fix incorrect calc...

You're still having trouble with reading comprehension. Use value is not an all-or-nothing proposition. There is a spectrum there. . . some things have a lot of use value, some things very little (approaching zero). I do use gold, I buy it as often as I can, it is a great . . . wait f...

Bitcoin fully embodies the spirit of denationalized money as it seeks no authority for its continued existence and it recognizes no political borders for its circulation. Indeed according to the report, proponents see Bitcoin as “a good starting point to end the monopoly central banks...

So congressman, senator when you paid that hooker on our tax dollar, when you pay the young man to have sex with you from Ohio – the swing state –/ the US money you use is as EVIL as Bitcoin because it was used in a evil crime…. Evil is evil, money is money. simple to gATO sorry I rage—-

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I'm putting the final touches on a new website that I hope new and existing users of Bitcoin will find beneficial. It's called the Bitcoin Consumers Union and its goal is to help facilitate a fair and just marketplace for users of Bitcoin. We'll work toward this in three ways. First, ...

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Agree with the other posters. I used to use RadRails (now Aptana) on Windows, but when I switched to OS X I was shown the simplicity and beauty (not to mention speed) of just using a good text editor, Terminal, and a browser. Also, the TextMate developer(s) seem to have pretty much dr...